I’d much rather see this than any of the commercial adverts.
It is useful information too. Most people won’t interrupt or help, and partly because they are not sure how. I saw this recently and it did make me think, if I did see something happening I have a better idea of how I can help.
It also creates an environment where you cannot justify not acting because you don’t think you can help, and that we as a society are saying it is not acceptable. If one person challenges harassment that would not have done so before seeing that, I’d count it as a success.
Stuff like this helps pull people out of the bystander effect which is what you’re describing. It gives everyone a call to action, either actively asking a question or silently reporting it, which is pretty rad.
Apparently sexual harassment on public transportation in the UK has risen by 63% since 2019:
I wonder what else has increased significantly during that time…
Lots of new neo-Nazi groups.
Inflation is way up.
Dog whistles are becoming increasingly popular
Olive oil prices have increased by over 50% the last few years.
Stand up paddle boarding is showing an 800% increase in interest across the UK.
It must be the olive oil and paddle boarding.
Racism, apparently
Yea, your willingness to hate white people to the point you literally fetishise backwards cultures where they see nothing at all wrong with sexual harassment and rape. Even when women are suffering tremendously under the results of your misguided white-saviour complex you still can’t understand your errors of judgment.
I have been harassed and abused by white men waaayyy more than I have by black or brown men. And that’s even with living in very diverse places.
Immigration is not the problem. Men are. But I guess you’re going to get triggered by that kind of broad generalisation huh?
Across countries, social borders, faiths, genders, ethnicities, age groups, sexual harassment seems to crop up when the opportunity presents itself.
Counterquestion: How much sexual harrasment do you think is ok before these kinds of ads are justified?
And another one: What would you replace these ads with?
Without revealing too much, my mother was a women’s rights activist for a short while when I was younger (in the mid-90s).
She was abused by a priest within the Asian community, and was told (like many women before her) to keep quiet, since the norm was to blame the woman for being abused. My mother said fuck that, and spoke up. She was on every major TV station giving interviews, she was on Kilroy twice (was a very popular talk show here in the UK), shook hands with Princess Diana, etc.
The reason I bring that up, is due to one time when she would go on a local radio station and provide her phone number live on air, telling women to contact her, that she would go through the pranks and spam if there was the chance of victims coming through.
The amount of women experiencing every day harassment was something that I just cannot forget, as a young man knowing the extent of what women go through in regards to daily harassment really helped shape my understanding. It is a real issue that I believe a lot of men are simply unaware of as nothing of that sort happens to us. I’ve met countless women who have told me they are afraid to wear dresses that are shorter than down to their ankles, in fear of being groped. In 2024 this shouldn’t be a thing but here we are.These signs are, unfortunately, needed to raise some awareness. It’s not an issue that faces me directly, but man it definitely is an issue for a lot of women out there. Getting MUCH better, however still something that needs to be acknowledged imho.
